Pix from primitive biathlon

[rich pierce]

Various pix from the Southern Vermont Primitive Biathlon.

Young shooters







Our friend Josh and his table of powder horns and accoutrements he’s made ( he’s blind)




Various old guys

[Flint62Smoothie]

SoVT Biathlon … THE BEST primitive MZL Biathlon of the Winter season in the Nor’East!

Some ‘older’ guys made it too …

[Joe Stein]

Thank you for the pictures. We seldom get enough snow down here in Maryland to even think about a snowshoe biathlon, much less plan one. No snow at all last year.
Joe Stein

[Flint62Smoothie]

I hear you … we tried to run them in Mass but snow was inconsistent here too!

[smylee grouch]

Good pics Rich. Really great to see those young shooters.

[StevenV]

Thanks for pics Rich, looks like good times. Steve

[mountainman70]

I remember our winter doins. These pics bring back Great memories of Great bros
Thanks for gettin the younguns involved
Keep warm up there
Dave 

[Bob Gerard]

Looks like some lifetime memories were made there!

[alacran]

The last time I wore snowshoes I was 20 years old. They were Army issued. I wasn't impressed. If I had the choice, I preferred the suicide boards that the Army called skis.

[P.W.Berkuta]

Very "COOL" pictures indeed! I have to ask in the first picture what is the adult holding and pointing toward the youngsters?

[rich pierce]

Very "COOL" pictures indeed! I have to ask in the first picture what is the adult holding and pointing toward the youngsters?

A Leatherman multi tool.

[Daryl]

Pretty hard ground to be wearing misery slippers, but they certainly do add an extra encumbrance to the shoot if wearing them is mandatory when firing and loading.

[rich pierce]

Pretty hard ground to be wearing misery slippers, but they certainly do add an extra encumbrance to the shoot if wearing them is mandatory when firing and loading.

Daryl, traditional snowshoes are required for the timed event. Some competitors have gone so far as to make “traditional” snowshoes no wider than their boots and make the length of those trout or char you catch!  The way trees timed events are scored is that the time ranks people with the same number of targets hit. I wear the snowshoes even on the untimed woods walk just as part of the experience. Unless there’s mud!  Gotta draw the line somewhere.

[Daryl]

LOL - was out bunny hunting with my buddy Keith, both with our bore rifles. In the .14 bore , I used 30gr. of powder and Keith used 40gr. in his 11 bore. We had my springer with us. The snow
was deep & soft and difficult for my springer to navigate. She got very tired bounding through the snow, then I went to take a step and almost did a face plant. She was standing on the backs of my snow shoes when I had stopped and after that, every time I stopped, she'd climb on. That was a fun 'hunt'.